What is "mostene"

Mostene is a Roman and Byzantine era city in ancient Lydia, located today at Kepecik in modern Turkey. The town minted its own coin of which many examples exist today.

Mostene was also the site of a Bishopric. The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Sardis and remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church to this day . The diocese was suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Sardis under Patriarchate of Constantinople.